Chapter Summaries

Gu Qing and Xia Shuran faced a swarm of Mutant Giant Rats erupting from a pit at Haicheng University. As Hu Zhou watched in shock, Xia Shuran charged the rats with her Dragon Spear and Gu Qing formed a blood-red crossbow and launched a volley of arrows.

• Mutant Giant Rats poured from the playground pit and charged Gu Qing, Xia Shuran, and Hu Zhou.
• Xia Shuran overcame her fear, summoned her Dragon Spear, and prepared to fight beside Gu Qing.
• Hu Zhou broke a horizontal bar into two pieces and stepped in front of Xia Shuran to cover her retreat.
• Xia Shuran unleashed her Martial Soul and swept through the rats, cutting down those within ten meters.
• Gu Qing revealed his Qi and Blood Power, warned Hu Zhou to leave the playground, and formed a blood-red crossbow.
• Gu Qing fired a bolt into the sky, where it split into over a hundred arrows that rained toward the swarm.

Gu Qing, Xia Shuran, and the other Supernatural Awakened wiped out the Mutant Giant Rats overrunning the university playground while students watched from nearby dormitories. After the battle, the five approached a massive crater, where the chapter left them peering into its depths.

• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran used their powers to burn through the rat swarm as Hu Zhou watched in disbelief.
• Students filmed the battle and shared the footage, while Public Security Officers kept curious onlookers away from the playground.
• Wu Jiahao charged into the rats to show off, then unleashed lightning to kill them; Zhao Chuan and Liu Yue also slaughtered rats with their abilities.
• The five Supernatural Awakened finished off the rats, and Wu Jiahao bragged that he had killed 1,024 of them.
• Gu Qing led the others to the crater, and they looked down into its deep, ten-meter-wide pit.

At Haida, Gu Qing and the others investigated a rat-filled pit while Zhao Chuan warned them that the Rat God Cult had powerful members and should not be underestimated. The ground then collapsed in three more places across campus, and Zhao Chuan ordered the public security officers to check what had happened.

• Xia Shuran inhaled poison from the pit, and Zhao Chuan gave her a rare Antidote Potion that eased her symptoms.
• Zhao Chuan explained that stronger Rat God Cult followers operated across Haicheng, including one powerful enough to nearly swallow a Night Court chief captain.
• Wu Jiahao dismissed the cult as weak and claimed he would reach advanced creature and deputy captain strength within a year, prompting Zhao Chuan to warn him not to underestimate the cult.
• Lin Tianyang and Ma Dongyu arrived with public security officers, and Zhao Chuan and Lin Tianyang ordered them to remove the rat carcasses while keeping the pit accessible for investigation.
• Three more collapses shook different parts of campus, and Zhao Chuan silenced the crowd and told the public security official to check for additional collapses.

After cave-ins at Haida released Giant Mutant Rats, Zhao Chuan and the supernaturals split up to fight them and evacuate students. At the rear gate, Gu Qing and Xia Shuran encountered Huang Xiao Qing, who transformed into a Ratman, while Wu Jiahao rushed over to confront her.

• The Public Security Department leader told Zhao Chuan that cave-ins had opened at Haida's gates and the Rising Sun Building, releasing Giant Mutant Rats but causing no casualties.
• Zhao Chuan ordered students evacuated and sent the supernaturals to fight the rats; he, Liu Yue, Wu Jiahao, Lin Tianyang, and Ma Dongyu headed to different areas.
• Gu Qing and Xia Shuran ran into Huang Xiao Qing near a girls' dormitory, where she accused Gu Qing of taking her sister, Huang Xiaoyue.
• Gu Qing told Xia Shuran to retreat, and Huang Xiao Qing transformed into a towering Ratman in front of the dormitory.
• Wu Jiahao saw Huang Xiao Qing, announced he would defeat her, and charged toward her after activating several mutant creature genes.

Gu Qing effortlessly withstood Huang Xiaoqing’s bite and shattered her fangs and throat, revealing that she was no match for him. Huang Xiaoqing fled after trying to hinder his pursuit with Rat Poison.

• Wu Jiahao charged Huang Xiaoqing, but she struck him with her tail and sent him crashing into a tree.
• Huang Xiaoqing unleashed her Biological Pressure and rushed at Gu Qing as Ma Dongyu ran to warn him.
• Gu Qing punched Huang Xiaoqing’s maw, breaking her fangs and tearing through her throat without being injured.
• Ma Dongyu collided with Gu Qing and was thrown backward, while girls in the dormitory cheered for him.
• Gu Qing taunted Huang Xiaoqing, who turned and fled while releasing clouds of Rat Poison.

Ma Dongyu reflected on Huang Xiao Qing’s strength and reconsidered why Huang had attacked her. She suspected the attack had been meant to lure Gu Qing to Haicheng University and feared that stronger Rat God Cult Followers were targeting his Awakened Team.

• Ma Dongyu watched the hole Huang Xiao Qing had escaped through and realized Huang was far more durable than she had believed.
• Ma Dongyu recalled Huang’s earlier attack and Gu Qing’s claim that Huang held a grudge against him.
• Ma Dongyu guessed Huang had attacked her to draw Gu Qing to Haicheng University.
• Ma Dongyu noted that Gu Qing had arrived with an Awakened Team, including a ninth-order peak great-perfection Supernatural Awakened.
• Ma Dongyu suspected Huang had stronger accomplices and that their real target might be the entire Awakened Team.

Gu Qing shot down Huang Xiao Qing as she tried to escape, but a gigantic Mouse King swallowed and devoured her, then began growing wings. Gu Qing suspected the beast could gain abilities by eating others as Zhao Chuan, Liu Yue, and Lin Tianyang arrived and saw its immense size.

• Ma Dongyu contacted Night Court Headquarters while Xia Shuran and Wu Jiahao examined the deep hole Huang Xiao Qing had dug.
• Huang Xiao Qing burst out of the ground, grew fleshy wings, and flew into the sky, but Gu Qing emerged and shot her through the chest with a blood-red bolt.
• A giant Mouse King burst from the sports field, swallowed the falling Huang Xiao Qing, and bit her in half when she tried to escape its mouth.
• Huang Xiao Qing accused the Mouse King’s hidden controller of betraying her before the beast swallowed and refined her.
• The Mouse King began growing wings, and Gu Qing suspected it could evolve by devouring other creatures as Zhao Chuan, Liu Yue, and Lin Tianyang arrived.

Gu Qing faced the giant Mouse King as it flew toward Haicheng University, while the Night Court agents evacuated the students. He killed the Mouse King with a single blood-powered bolt, and its enormous body crashed to the ground.

• Liu Yue tried to flee, but Zhao Chuan stopped her and explained that they had to protect the students until Night Court reinforcements arrived.
• Gu Qing ordered Zhao Chuan and the others to evacuate the students while he held off the Mouse King alone.
• Gu Qing drew a blood-red crossbow and aimed at the approaching Mouse King as everyone else left to evacuate the dormitories.
• Gu Qing fired a bolt infused with qi and blood power and martial true intent, piercing the Mouse King's skull and destroying its cells.
• The Mouse King lost the ability to fly, crashed to the ground, and bled heavily from its body.

Gu Qing defeated the Mouse King with one arrow, but the Rat-Head Masked Man appeared and attacked him. Gu Qing’s enhanced body withstood the masked man’s Bone Blades, and he charged in with a punch aimed at shattering the man’s mask.

• Gu Qing shot the Mouse King with Qi and Blood Power, mortally wounding it with a single arrow.
• Gu Qing tried to finish the Mouse King, but the Rat-Head Masked Man’s Bone Blades burst from the ground and forced him to retreat.
• The Rat-Head Masked Man emerged in his complete Ratman form and sent nine poisoned Bone Blade tails at Gu Qing.
• Gu Qing activated Knotted Muscles Mode and dodged the first Bone Blade strikes, then endured a second wave that could not penetrate his strengthened body.
• Gu Qing rushed the masked man and swung a Qi-and-Blood-powered punch at his rat-head mask.

Gu Qing defeated the Masked Man, but the shattered Rat-Head Mask repaired itself and killed its wearer by draining his vitality. When Gu Qing wounded the dying Mouse King to stop the mask from claiming him, it reached him and burrowed into his mouth.

• Gu Qing crushed the Masked Man with repeated blows and stopped his escape by shooting down the mice he split into.
• The Masked Man regrouped and tried to flee, but Gu Qing stomped him into submission and broke all four of his limbs.
• The shattered Rat-Head Mask reassembled, teleported onto the Masked Man's face, and drained his vitality through tendrils.
• Gu Qing stabbed the mask and the Masked Man through the head, killing him, and the mask then raced toward the Mouse King.
• Gu Qing shot the nearly dying Mouse King, but the Rat-Head Mask reached him and transformed into flesh that burrowed into his mouth.

Gu Qing killed the Mouse King, but its corpse revived as a powerful Zombie Mouse King that resisted his attacks. As the group fled, Gu Qing intercepted its bone-blade tails, and Xia Shuran’s severed finger regenerated in a burst of blood mist.

• Gu Qing repeatedly shot the Mouse King’s corpse after killing it, while the others praised his strength and Xia Shuran offered him cookies.
• The group relaxed and ate Xia Shuran’s cookies, then the Mouse King’s corpse revived with a giant mouse-head mask and nine bone-blade tails.
• Gu Qing’s Qi and Blood Power failed to harm the Zombie Mouse King, so he warned everyone to run.
• Gu Qing intercepted the tails aimed at the fleeing group with nine bolts, but a shock wave severed Xia Shuran’s little finger.
• Xia Shuran’s severed finger dissolved into blood mist, and her little finger regenerated at its stump.

Song Anni arrived at Haicheng University and destroyed the Zombie Mouse King, then captured the Rat-Head Mask. After Xia Shuran explained Gu Qing’s role in protecting the others, Song Anni flew into the pit to investigate the caverns beneath Haida, leaving the cleanup to everyone else.

• Song Anni used her Laser Eyes to cut apart and burn the Zombie Mouse King, then pinned down the fleeing Rat-Head Mask and stored it in her Storage Ring.
• The girls in the dormitory cheered for Song Anni, while Xia Shuran felt that Gu Qing’s contribution had been overlooked.
• Song Anni greeted Gu Qing and said she hoped he would awaken and join her Monster Assault Team.
• Song Anni told Xia Shuran she hoped she would have a baby soon, then drank warmed milk from her baby bottle.
• Xia Shuran told Song Anni that Gu Qing had fought the Rat God Cult Followers and protected everyone, and Song Anni promised to report his contribution to her boss.
• Song Anni sensed caverns beneath Haida and flew into the pit to investigate, while Gu Qing decided not to follow her.

After discovering that Yang Yuntong had the unusual [Dark · Forbidden Scholar] tag, Gu Qing took her aside and explained the spiritual energy revival and the Night Court. Yang Yuntong denied gaining any powers, leaving Gu Qing doubtful because her tag suggested otherwise.

• Gu Qing noticed the [Dark · Forbidden Scholar] tag above Yang Yuntong and wondered whether she had awakened a supernatural ability.
• Gu Qing brushed off his roommates’ questions and asked Yang Yuntong to speak with him privately.
• Gu Qing told Yang Yuntong that the spiritual energy revival had transformed the world and explained that he and the other Transcendents at school belonged to the Night Court.
• Gu Qing asked whether Yang Yuntong had gained unusual powers, and she immediately denied it.
• Gu Qing examined Yang Yuntong’s expression and her tag, becoming suspicious of her denial.

Gu Qing questioned Yang Yuntong about her awakening, then used the Magic Mirror to learn that the Masked Man’s Rat-Head Mask housed the will of the Source of Plague. He revealed the supernatural world to his roommates and displayed his Blood Crossbow before returning to cleanup, where Xia Shuran asked what the giant rats had eaten.

• Gu Qing suspected Yang Yuntong had awakened a superpower and asked Jiang Wanqiao to register her, while Yang privately wondered how Gu Qing had detected her awakening.
• Gu Qing asked the Magic Mirror about the Rat-Head Mask and learned it housed the will of the Source of Plague, though the mirror refused to explain the entity’s strength.
• Gu Qing told Chen Zijie, Gao Fei, and Qian Duole about the Spiritual Energy Revival, monsters, and Transcendents.
• Gu Qing formed his Blood Crossbow from Qi and Blood, stunning nearby students with its size and heat as Yang Yuntong wondered how it compared to her Book of Taboos.
• Gu Qing resumed clearing Mutant Giant Rat corpses and repairing the damage, while Xia Shuran asked what the rats had eaten to grow so large.

Gu Qing and the others cleared the aftermath of the Rat God Cult’s attack while Xia Shuran discovered that her Martial Soul had regrown her severed finger. After Song Anni declared the Haida crisis resolved, Gu Qing entered the pit and found a vast rat tunnel network, leaving him to wonder why the cult had targeted Haida during the Spiritual Energy Revival.

• Lin Tianyang brought several captured Rat Slaves to Gu Qing, including Gu Qing’s former Japanese instructor, Mr. Yamamoto.
• Xia Shuran told Gu Qing that her severed little finger had turned to blood mist and grown back, and Gu Qing suspected her Martial Soul had reconstructed it.
• Song Anni returned from the deep pit, said the crisis at Haida had been resolved, and flew away.
• Gu Qing entered the pit to investigate, and the others followed him.
• Gu Qing found a sprawling underground labyrinth filled with Rat Poison miasma and dead Mutant Giant Rats, and wondered why the Rat God Cult had targeted Haida during the Spiritual Energy Revival.

Gu Qing and the Haida Transcendents finished their first mission and returned to Night Court Headquarters to report. There, Gu Qing learned that Jiang Wanqiao had awakened a power connected to magic, and she revealed that she had turned her nose into a pig’s snout by casting a spell from a magical girl book.

• Gu Qing explored the underground tunnels beneath Haida, found only yellow-green mist and rat corpses, and told the gathered Transcendents that rats had hollowed out the ground beneath the campus.
• After Haida’s cleanup was nearly complete, Gu Qing and Xia Shuran rode to Night Court Headquarters ahead of Zhao Chuan, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue to report their mission.
• While waiting outside Deacon Tian’s office, Gu Qing saw the familiar [Light] label above Jiang Wanqiao when she emerged from the office.
• Jiang Wanqiao confirmed that she had awakened and said her power seemed to involve magic.
• Jiang Wanqiao explained that she had followed a magical girl book’s gestures and incantation for a prank spell, then turned her nose into a pig’s snout.

Jiang Wanqiao told Gu Qing she had learned a spell from a magic book and was heading to have her supernatural origin tested. Gu Qing then demonstrated his Qi and Blood Release for Deacon Tian, received a C-rank mission reward, and chose a Dragon Blood Fruit to strengthen his qi and blood.

• Jiang Wanqiao explained that she had learned a pig-snout spell from a magic book, and Deacon Tian had sent her for a supernatural-origin test.
• Gu Qing wondered about the connection between Jiang Wanqiao's [Light] tag and Yang Yuntong's [Dark Scholar] tag.
• Zhao Chuan reported the mission's completion to Deacon Tian, who asked Gu Qing to demonstrate his Qi and Blood Release.
• Gu Qing formed blood-colored armor, a Blood Crossbow, and a spear; Deacon Tian warped space to remove the intense heat and praised his skill.
• Deacon Tian sent Zhao Chuan, Gu Qing, Xia Shuran, Wu Jiahao, and Liu Yue to collect their rewards, giving Gu Qing a C-rank reward.
• Gu Qing showed Xia Shuran the Dragon Blood Fruit he had chosen to strengthen his qi and blood.

Gu Qing consumed the Dragon Blood Fruit and evolved to advanced third order before sharing chilled fruit with Xia Shuran in his dorm. Xia Shuran told him her Martial Soul could regenerate her from a drop of blood and that their rat-extermination video had gone viral, and the chapter ended as Gu Qing received a video call from his mother, Wen Wanyi.

• Gu Qing ate the Dragon Blood Fruit and evolved from advanced second order to advanced third order.
• Xia Shuran brought chilled fruit to Gu Qing’s dorm, and they ate together.
• Xia Shuran told Gu Qing that her family’s Old Ancestor had confirmed her Martial Soul could reconstruct flesh and blood and might regenerate her from a drop of blood.
• Xia Shuran said the rat-extermination video had gone viral and that her worried parents had seen it.
• Gu Qing suggested the authorities were allowing the video to spread so the public would prepare for future monster attacks.
• Gu Qing received a video call from his mother, Wen Wanyi, and expected her to ask about the viral video.

Gu Qing told his parents and sister about his awakening as a Transcendent and the Spiritual Energy Revival, then bickered with Gu Yao about their futures and her decision to study at home. When Xia Shuran appeared on the video call, Gu Yao assumed she might be Gu Qing’s future sister-in-law and demanded to see her face.

• Gu Qing answered a worried video call from Wen Wanyi and Gu Mingbo, who had heard about the Haida collapse but had not yet seen the rat-killing footage.
• Gu Yao showed her parents the official video of Gu Qing killing Giant Mutant Rats, and Gu Qing confirmed it was real.
• Gu Qing explained that he was a Transcendent, monsters existed, he had left university temporarily to join a Supernatural Organization, and the world had undergone a Spiritual Energy Revival.
• Gu Yao excitedly teased Gu Qing about his new status, and the siblings argued about her studying at home and whether she might become a stronger Transcendent.
• Xia Shuran passed in front of Gu Qing’s phone and mentioned sour plum powder, prompting Gu Yao to ask if she was his future sister-in-law.
• Gu Qing explained that Xia Shuran was his junior and might also be a Transcendent in their organization, but Gu Yao demanded to see her face.

Gu Qing introduced Xia Shuran to his family over a video call, and his parents warmly invited her to visit. Beneath Haicheng, the Rat God Cult Follower Zhao Chuan had mentioned watched footage of Gu Qing and decided to capture him, then fed a captured Fox Woman to his mutant rats.

• Gu Yao and Wen Wanyi urged Gu Qing to let Xia Shuran join the call, and Xia Shuran nervously greeted his family.
• Gu Yao recognized Xia Shuran as the woman who had fought the rat swarm, and Wen Wanyi invited her to visit and pressed Gu Qing to bring her home.
• Gu Qing explained more about the supernatural world to his family while Xia Shuran stayed shy and quiet.
• In a cavern beneath Haicheng, the masked Ratman roused his mutant giant rats to dig tunnels beneath downtown Haicheng.
• After watching footage of Gu Qing fighting the Masked Man, the Ratman decided to capture and study him.
• The Ratman ordered his giant rats to tear apart the captured Fox Woman after she threatened him with the Fox Woman Clan’s Saintess.